A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.
Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than he gives, but gives what he requires, and accepts what he gives.
Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.
What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.